Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals
centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch
poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the
Well, in 1686. This is the first full translation of Brongersma's
extant work. An artist as versatile, eloquent, and daring as her
English contemporary Aphra Behn, Brongersma dedicated more than
thirty impassioned poems to her beloved, Elisabeth Joly, and
experimented with pastoral verse in West Frisian. Famed, too, for
her part in a pioneering excavation at the ancient monument in
Borger, Brongersma celebrated this experience in strong verse.
Evoking Ovid, Petrarch, Dutch theatre, and French opera, the poet
brought to life a lost world of gifted, surprising, charming women
and men - Joly, her own family, her friends, her patrons, and her
supporters - as well as figures from history and mythology.
Brongersma expressed a powerful sentiment of solidarity with her
sex. Her interest in women's lives, their pleasures, plights, and
priorities, inflected the baroque profusion of genres she so
captivatingly adopted. Eric Miller's facing-page translations of
every piece that Brongersma published are themselves works of art,
adequate to this artist's extraordinary bequest. His introduction
and notes redeem Brongersma from three centuries of obscurity,
survey relevant scholarship, and develop original insights into the
poet's inspirations, physical surroundings, sources, and
connections.
General
Imprint: |
McGill-Queen's University Press
|
Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Eric Miller
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 46mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
592 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-228-00338-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-228-00338-5 |
Barcode: |
9780228003380 |
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